Chinese chess originated in the Warring States, and was favored by Emperor Ming and Emperor Suzong of Tang in the Tang Dynasty, and was greatly popular in the court. In the following hundred years, the first climax of chess development was driven. During the Song Dynasty, chess was popular among literati. The chess path is not easy to kill, just for pleasure. Most of the people who play chess are Ouyang Xiu, Li Qingzhao and other literati, bring a pair of chess to the landscape to play, tired to play a game in the shade of the pine, regardless of whether they win or lose, purely for fun. Wen Tianxiang is a veteran chess enthusiast who has been a chess friend since childhood. One day, he and his friends were swimming in the river, and suddenly fell addicted to chess, so they had to play two games. A friend asked how to play chess if there is no chess piece on the water? Wen Tianxiang said, simply play blind chess. Blind chess is no chess in the hand, there is a chess in the heart, all rely on the mouth to report the coordinates of the chess pieces, the whole disk movement is presented in the brain, extremely testing memory. Wen Tianxiang said "cannon two flat five", the other side said "ma two into three", down to twenty steps, friends because they want to play chess lost their minds, choked a few mouthfuls of river water, directly shouted "can't remember, the chess road is chaotic." "At the end of the Song Dynasty, the Yuan soldiers invaded in a big way. Wen Tianxiang went out to fight hard in the southeast, and was eventually defeated and captured. In prison, he saw the destruction of the country and the death of the family, took out a chess piece with him, discharged a game of "single riding to see the prisoner", and the last step was smashed on the chessboard, shaking the chess pieces to burst, and sighed with great sorrow: the country is in the people, the country is dead! In the Qing Dynasty, playing chess was a lowly practice. The broad people play all kinds of money-burning entertainment, lift cages and rack birds, watch dramas, and fight cockroaches. Only the poor people at the bottom, with no spare money, put up a few wooden knots to chat to entertain themselves. People who eat by playing chess are known as the "muhanako" who want to eat, and their status is not as good as the artists who sing drums, talk cross-talk, and juggle on the overpass. Most of the practitioners are charlatans who can't afford to eat, fatherless and motherless orphans, and set up chess stalls with the mentality of "playing chess is equivalent to kneeling", which is equivalent to begging in disguise, all by performing residual chess to earn a few copper plates. In the early years, many families were broken and displaced, and they almost became thieves or bandits, and their blessings were pitiful. Even after becoming famous, being beaten and humiliated is commonplace. Wang Zaiyue, the first person to study chess in the Qing Dynasty, once wrote the "Plum Blossom Score" that he had learned all his life, which was called the Chess Score of the Inheritance by posterity, but before his death, he was poor and depressed, and after the chess composition was written, he could only rely on hand copying and circulating. Baji, the king of jianghu chess, has been in chess since he was a child, and has been obsessed with life for a lifetime, and he has no heart for anything else. In the end, although he practiced a skill and killed all the heroes on the chessboard, he had no choice but to live in a difficult life and could only rely on the chess booth to survive. By the time he was in his fifties, he went to Shanghai Beach with his chess pieces to beg for food, and was blackmailed by street thugs, and he could not come up with money and could only hide everywhere. One day, he was about to go out of the stall when he was suddenly surrounded by several hooligans. Grab his pieces and threaten him to swallow them all or cripple them on the spot. He swore to resist to the death, and was beaten and beaten, and the fingers of his right hand were broken. After the hooligans left, the Baji people slowly walked to the Huangpu River, thinking that this was foolish because of chess, and spent their lives in vain, just like Du Shiniang's angry sinking treasure chest, one by one, he threw the chess pieces into the river with his residual fingers, and finally he himself jumped and sank into the gushing river.
Chess players on the streets of the late Qing Dynasty
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During the Republic of China, chess became popular in the ring. Among them was an inconspicuous attacking chess player named Xie Xiaxun. Xie Xiaxun was born in Pingyang, Zhejiang Province, and learned chess at the age of four. At the age of 13, he went to Wenzhou alone to attack the home of local chess champion Chen Sheng. Chen Sheng saw a small child coming, and smiled, "If you can force me to move the marshal, count you win." Xie Xiaxun shook his head, took out three yuan in his pocket, put it on the table, and said, "We are even, and the loss of this money belongs to you." Chen Sheng saw that he was persistent and agreed to come down. At that time, in order to let people watch, the chess game was played on a high-legged table. Xie Xiaxun was young and could only play chess on his knees in a chair. In the first game of chess, Chen Sheng deliberately tested Xie Xiaxun's depth and did not come out with full strength. Xie Xiaxun attacked for the first time, nervously gritting his teeth, his legs trembling, and his hands trembling. In fact, he has a total of three yuan of money collected by his family, all bet on this game, if he loses, he will not even have the cost of going back. Despite the tension, at this time, Xie Xiaxun's chess has been quite powerful, in the middle game, grasp the opponent's flaw, seize the opportunity, and win the first game. With the bottom of the first set, the second set was played, and Xie Xiaxun has gradually entered a good situation, playing steadily and steadily, and playing a draw. In the third game, Chen Sheng had already seen that this child could not be underestimated, and he could not win without showing his ability to take care of the family. So he performed a lifelong skill to kill Xie Xiaxun. In the end, Xie Xiaxun won one victory and one loss, and Chen Sheng as a whole was drawn, and the head corner was revealed. After the victory of the Xinhai Revolution, Xie Xiaxun was ecstatic and drew up a chess game called "The Uprising of the Ejun Army" and sent it to the Shanghai "Current Affairs New Daily". Seeing this endgame, the newspaper skillfully integrated current politics and chess, which was quite innovative, and set up a column to publish it, which was immediately sensational. After that, Xie Xiaxun successively planned to publish the newspaper in the endgame, and openly asked for answers, and for a while letters from all over the place, like snowflakes, flew in. One of the preferred answers came from a chess master named Pan Dingsi, who was once a person in the late Qing Dynasty. Because of this activity, Xie Xiaxun and Pan Dingsi met, although the two did not meet, but they felt sorry for each other, and have been exchanging letters and making friends. Until three years later, Xie Xiaxun went to Shanghai, and the two finally had to meet, see each other as before, drink and discuss chess, and become close friends. After that, the two of them combined their swords and co-authored a book "New Score of Chess in Commemoration of National Shame", which was passed down as a good story in the chess world.
Xie Xiaxun and Pan Dingsi, co-authored the chess score In the mid-summer of 1922, Pan Dingsi suddenly fell seriously ill and died, only 47 years old when he died. On his deathbed, he instructed his family, "In the future, all my chess pieces will be given to Xie Xiaxun." Xie Xiaxun heard the bad news, rushed to Suzhou to send off his friends, saw the relics of the deceased, was full of grief, and wrote a eulogy with tears: Junjin suddenly left, like a broken hand and an arm. The two are heroes in the chaotic world, the fate of the chess world, and they are each other's confidants. Since then, I have been alone, and I feel lonely. In 1937, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out. Xie Xiaxun sighed with emotion and raised the idea of salvation. At this time, he was more than half a hundred years old, and sent his wife and children back to his hometown to Nanjing to ask for help to save the country. A chess player cannot charge the battlefield, but can only repay the country with chess. In the following three years, as a special envoy of the state, he went to Nanyang twice to collect donations to resist Japan by playing chess. Persuaded to Penang, because Wang Jingwei's wife Chen Bijun was a Penang native, the local area was full of Wang pseudo-agents. As soon as Xie Xiaxun arrived in the local area, a young man in a suit and leather shoes and an oil-smeared head smiled and handed over an envelope. Xie Xiaxun opened the envelope, there was no letter paper, only a click, dropped a bullet. Xie Xiaxun's face darkened, reprimanding what this meant, and the other party threatened, "If you don't stop collecting donations, you don't want to leave alive." Xie Xiaxun slapped the bullet on the table, "Xie Mou is waiting!" The agent saw that the intimidation attempt had failed, and ash slipped away. On this mission to Nanyang, with the help of many overseas Chinese, Xie Xiaxun finally had no danger, raised more than 50 million yuan in donations, and launched more than 3,300 overseas Chinese who returned to China to resist the war. In 1939, after returning to China, Xie Xiasun lived in Chongqing. One afternoon, an important person suddenly came to visit. Xie Xiaxun hurried forward to greet him, at two o'clock, a person came in on time, thick eyebrows like paint, extraordinary qi, entered the door to hold Xie Xiaxun's hand, smiled: "You are the chess king Xie Gong, right?" The person who came was Zhou Enlai, and Xie Xiaxun was pleasantly surprised, "It turned out to be the Long-admired Zhou Gong." The two sat down, tasted tea and greeted each other, first talked about the anti-Japanese situation, and then talked about ancient and modern chess games. After chatting about the kung fu of a cup of tea, Zhou Enlai proposed to play a few games. Zhou Enlai is also a chess master, and it is not a problem to take a city championship today. When the Kuomintang and the Communists were negotiating in Chongqing, Chiang Kai-shek once boasted that he was superb in chess and invited him to play, who knew that he had been beheaded twice in a row under the horse. In the game with Xie Xiaxun, Zhou Enlai was skilled in chess and had both attack and defense, but his chess strength was a long way behind. Xie Xiaxun deliberately gave in and played two games of chess in a row. After the final discussion, the two finalees decided to name the second game "Lyrical National Difficulties". In the chess world before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xie Xiaxun was the only one who left his posthumous name. At that time, chess was already very common throughout the country after being vigorously promoted. Shanghai set up the "National Chess Command", and everyone unanimously elected Xie Xiaxun as the first leader. In 1985, Xie Xiaxun held his centenarian birthday in Shanghai, when Jiang Zemin was appointed secretary of the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee, and personally inscribed "Ballantine master, always maintain youth" to show congratulations. Two years later, Xie Xiaxun drove to the west of the crane, completed the hero's life, completed his merits, and was known as the "King of Chinese Chess".
Xie Xiaxun
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Since Xie Xiaxun's abdication in his later years, the jianghu chess world has fallen into a strife. One of the most famous chess players is Zhou Deyu in Yangzhou and Dong Wenyuan in Hangzhou, and the two are lifelong nemesis. Zhou Deyu's father, Zhou Huanwen, was the "Huaiyang Three Masters" of the chess world at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the chess road was passed down to Zhou Deyu's generation, which has been practiced by thousands of hammers. It's just Zhou Deyu himself, playing chess has a fatal weakness, that is, he is anxious, and he is easy to be irritable on the spot, which is a taboo for masters. When his father was dying, he also specially warned him: "Don't be in a hurry to kill!" "Meaning, when you are about to kill a son, don't worry, you have to think about it first." Zhou Deyu is known as the "Chess King of the Seven Provinces", and he has the potential to win the whole country, and it is precisely because of his Achilles heel that his record stops at the Seven Provinces. In 1939, during the Six Kings Championship in Hong Kong, he met Dong Wenyuan, who was equal to himself. Dong Wenyuan, nicknamed "King of Wupin Chess", is famous in the chess world for his high chess skills and poor chess qualities. During the game, he often deliberately intimidated and mocked his opponents, and also hummed small songs, picked his nose, spit and flew around, and smoked heavily and sprayed people's faces. Not only is the chess piece poor, but Dong Wenyuan's character is also worrying. Once his friend was in an emergency, he was nervous at hand, and took the jewelry to entrust him to exchange some cash for emergency relief. Unexpectedly, he sold the jewelry, went directly into the casino, lost a fine, turned around and lost contact. The battle between Zhou and Dong, the strength of the two sides is equal, it should be a battle of dragons and tigers with equal strength. But Dong Wenyuan was well aware of the weakness of the other party, so he thought of a big loss. Just before the match, he suddenly opened his five fingers, slapped the palm of the god, slapped Zhou Deyu's eyes, and showed the five words written in his palm: Oath to kill Zhou Deyu! Among them, the three words "Zhou Deyu" also deliberately used a red pen to hit three large forks.
Dong Wenyuan Zhou Deyu knew that Dong Wenyuan was playing an "off-the-plate move" and deliberately provoked him. But he was a temper tantrum, or like a cannon fight, he exploded at one point, instantly bursting into flames, vowing to behead Dong Wenyuan within thirty rounds. Playing chess is an extreme need to be calm and brave, and Zhou Deyu's move quickly killed the red eye. As a result, he was ambushed by Dong Wenyuan in succession during the charge, resulting in six consecutive losses and a complete defeat. Since ancient times, life has been like chess, what kind of personality people are, they can only play what kind of chess. Mangfu can't play the king's chess, and the villain can't play the gentleman's chess. Chess that is too aggressive and too damaged is difficult to last. Zhou and Dong fought for a lifetime, and in the end they all ended miserably. Dong Wenyuan was later expelled from the Sports Committee for his bad chess skills, and he was also guilty of "playing with women" and was re-reformed for eight years. After coming out, a cadre could not bear to see him buried and took him back to the chess world. As a result, he was in the chess arena, full of talk about how he visited brothels and smoked cigarettes. Drunk during the meal, he opened his mouth and sprayed people with wine and vegetables, which disappointed everyone. In his later years, Dong Wenyuan fell into the rivers and lakes, had no family, and could only rely on the end of the situation to survive. Some people also saw him set up a chess stall on the edge of Hangzhou's West Lake in 1995, but it was already a year of wind and candles, and he passed away the following year. His old rival Zhou Deyu, who played chess in middle age by smoking opium to refresh his mind, ended up addicted to opium and could not make ends meet. In the end, chess was also abandoned, and one by one the things in the family were taken lightly, borrowing debts everywhere, and relatives and friends were separated. By the winter of 1949, life was unsustainable and life was full of hunger and cold. Early one morning, he was found frozen to death on the streets of Shanghai by cleaners. When he collected the body, he found him carrying a crumpled piece of paper in his arms, and wrote a poem of oil playing in a crooked and oblique way: In the cool night of the white head lamp shadow, a game of chess is scattered. Wujiang did not see the hero, and sang a sad song on the Overlord Bridge.
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In 1956, chess was entrusted with the national fortune, and chess was designated as a national sport, thus entering a golden period of development. At this time, the chess world is divided into two factions, the north and the south. The southern faction is good at delicacy, and the north is good at attacking and killing. At that time, the two top chess players were known as the "Northern King of Southern Yang", the southern faction was Yang Guanxuan, and the northern faction was Wang Jialiang. Yang Guanxuan is the son of a small businessman in Guangdong, who likes to play chess since childhood, often plays against the townspeople, and at a very young age, he won the title of "Dongguan Chess King". It's just that he is not satisfied with being only a county chess king, so he has the idea of winning the Central Plains, just like the ancient rangers, carrying a pair of wooden knots in their baggage, going out to run into the rivers and lakes. His first destination was Guangzhou. In those 20 or 30 years, Guangzhou was the city with the highest chess standard in the country, among which the hidden dragon crouching tiger, including Lu Hui, Feng Jingru, Li Qingquan, Huang Songxuan, and collectively known as the "Four Heavenly Kings". At this time, Yang Guanxuan was just emerging, and he had dueled with many masters, or he still lost more and won less. Huang Songxuan, one of the four kings of the past, once developed a unique and unique learning, called "abandoning horses and trapping the car bureau". At that time, Guangzhou's masters, in order to resist the enemy, won the game. Every time Yang Guanxuan encountered such an attack and killing, he had no choice but to seek a way to crack it. It is rumored that since Huang Songxuan's death, this game secret has only survived in the hands of Zhongshan chess player Zeng Zhanhong. In order to seek secret books, Yang Guanxuan visited Zeng Zhanhong's home. But this kind of unique secret, Zeng Zhanhong was willing to show people easily, and he always avoided the topic and did not talk about the mystery. Yang Guanxuan spent until people ate lunch before he said goodbye. In the afternoon, go again. Zeng Zhanhong was already a little impatient, so he only talked a few words, then went back to the room and hung Yang Guanxuan in the hall. After dinner, it was raining, Zeng Zhanhong heard someone knock on the door, and when he opened the door, he found that it was Yang Guanxuan again, standing in the rain with a broken umbrella. Yang Guanxuan's persistence in visiting the door three times a day finally touched Zeng Zhanhong and promised to take out the chess game and show it to him for a few minutes. Just these few minutes were enough for Yang Guanxuan. After going back, he repeatedly dismantled it, penetrated the mysteries, and greatly increased his skills. Lu Hui, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, set up a ring around the Haizhu Zen Temple. The storytellers, the faces, the jugglers, the five elements and eight works, the bustle is extraordinary. Yang Guanxuan came out of the mountain again and single-handedly attacked Lu Hui's ring. In the first set, Lu Hui saw that he was young and vigorous, but he was inexperienced and deliberately laid a trap with the intention of catching turtles in an urn. Who knew that Yang Guanxuan recognized it at a glance, but pretended not to know, and came out of the trap with a golden cicada, and then came to a counter-kill. In the second game, Lu Hui did not dare to be careless, and when he went to the middle game, he saw Yang Guanxuan's chess road with a needle hidden in the cotton, and he knew that he was difficult to defeat, so in order to save face, he gave up all attacks and defended the chess. At the end, he folded his hands in front of his abdomen and sighed: "Yang Jun's chess skills, such as Tai Chi with Soft Ke Gang, Qi through yin and yang, will dominate the rivers and lakes in the future." After defeating Lu Hui, Yang Guanxuan went to Hong Kong again. After going there, he learned that it was not easy to play chess in Hong Kong, there was no sleek communication skills, and there was no nobleman to play, although the chess was good, it was still a problem to even eat. In order to find food to eat, Yang Guanxuan went to the Xiutun Stadium during the day, set up a chess stall, and let the two horses play chess with passers-by. This is the way out for the most frustrated chess players, doing a five-point business, encountering windy and rainy weather, and drinking the northwest wind. One day, when I was out of the stall, a young man with a broad face and a good eye and a graceful demeanor came and asked in a loud voice, "Sir, do we play a game?" Yang Guanxuan nodded, during the confrontation, he found that this person's skill was quite good, and it took seven or eight points of skill to win, and curiously asked the other party whether he was also a professional chess player. The man shook his head and said, "I'm just a martial arts writer, my name is Liang Yusheng." ”
After Liang Yusheng met in Pingshui this time, Liang Yusheng and Yang Guanxuan became friends with chess. Liang Yusheng saw that Yang Guanxuan's livelihood was difficult, and specialized in his work in the "Ta Kung Pao", and co-opened a column with him to comment on chess, with a generous remuneration, disguised as a fund to him. He also suggested that Shanghai is now flourishing in chess and is a must for chess players, so it is better to break through. After Yang Guanxuan arrived at Shanghai Beach, his eyes were wide open, and he saw chess masters from all over the world gathered here. Zhu Jianqiu in Shanghai, Lin Rongxing in Yangzhou, Lei Haishan in Hubei, Chen Songshun in Guangdong. Yang Guanxuan listed the names of these masters one by one on the paper, looking for them one by one, and crossed out his name for each person who won. After a long time, the chess world spread, and there was a guangdong descendant who went to Shanghai to play the gym. At that time, there was an old chess player named Chen Rongtang, who was one of the top ten masters in Shanghai, and after hearing about Yang Guanxuan, he asked him to play ten games of chess. I wanted to teach the young people a lesson, but I was unexpectedly taught a lesson by Yang Guanxuan, and I lost eight times and two draws, and I didn't open a game, and I was so bad that I wanted to find a seam to drill down. In the following years, Yang Guanxuan swept around the beach, hundreds of battles large and small, and never tasted a defeat, and was known as "Yang Invincible" and was famous all over the world. With his impressive record, he was also elected as the second commander-in-chief of chess after Xie Xiaxun.
Yang Guanxuan (first from the left)
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In November 1960, in the Shanghai Chess National Championship, all the TV news and sports newspapers broadcast a message: Yang Guanxuan, the supreme leader in the chess world, actually lost to a 15-year-old young chess player in Shanghai. Yang Guanxuan was an undefeated myth at that time, losing a game of chess, and it was immediately the national news. In a match on the 29th, his opponent was a handsome teenager named Hu Ronghua. At the beginning of the game, Yang Guanxuan had the first hand, using his best layout, called the Middle Cannon River Patrol Cannon. This is called his "town mountain treasure", which means that his layout, as long as the shot is to win. At that time, everyone felt that Hu Ronghua was fierce and less auspicious, but Hu Ronghua unexpectedly used the left cannon to seal the car with his backhand, a very unpopular layout, and even restrained Yang Guanxuan's offensive. Since then, this battle between Yang and Hu has been a battle-hardened battlefield, flashing and moving, and it is easy to maneuver. A newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and the gun points to the hole to ask for his life. In the end, Hu Ronghua actually punched the teacher to death and won Over Yang Guanxuan. After Yang Guanxuan lost, he went to the canteen to eat. There is a plate of sharp peppers in the appetizer before the meal, the taste is extremely spicy, Yang Guanphos is still thinking about how to lose a game of chess just now, while thinking about eating sharp peppers, after eating a plate before reacting to spicy, hurriedly ordered two bottles of herbal tea. As a result, I immersed myself in the chess game review, and I forgot to drink the herbal tea when I came. After Hu Ronghua won, he went to the Silian Barber Shop on Wangfujing Street in Beijing and blew a head. That hairstyle was very popular at the time, and the hair was blown high, called "Spring Breeze Triumphant Head". At the closing dinner the next day, Chen Yi, vice premier of the State Council, and He Long, vice premier in charge of sports, were present, and Chen Yi specially pulled Hu Ronghua to He Long's presence to introduce them. At the award ceremony, Chen Yi also personally presented the award to Hu Ronghua, bent down to hang up the medal for him, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Wow, the doll has caught up!" Heroes out of youth! ”
Chen Yi presented the award to Hu Ronghua After 1965, Hu Ronghua's state gradually reached its peak, as long as he participated in the competition, even if it was a big defeat, he could turn things around. At that time, he had an old rival, Wang Jialiang, the first master of the Northern Sect. Wang Jialiang has won three national runners-up, always missed the champion, and is known as the second oldest of the millennium. In the national competition in 1965, he fought against Hu Ronghua, and whoever won was the champion. By the end, he was safe and had gone to the bathroom. When he returned, Hu Ronghua also got up and went to the toilet. After going to the toilet, Hu Ronghua was not in a hurry to return to his position, and he was idle in the arena. Wang Jialiang was an acute son, so he called him "Xiao Hu, what are you doing, ignorant?" Come back and play chess! Hu Ronghua slowly returned to his seat, raised his hand and took a cannon and gave it to Wang Jialiang to eat. Wang Jialiang looked at it, hey, this young man missed, and as soon as he was happy, he snapped his cannon and ate it. As a result, after eating the cannon and taking a few more steps, he found that something was wrong. It turned out that the cannon that was sent was not that Hu Ronghua had slipped away, but that he had deliberately dug a trap for him. This time he was tricked into the big pit, and the chess piece that won steadily was lost. Later, in order to win Hu Ronghua, Wang Jialiang secretly studied new tricks every year. These moves are not used in ordinary competitions, and they are waiting to be used against Hu Ronghua in the national individual competition. Later, he once took a new move with the opening and confidently prepared to take down Hu Ronghua in one fell swoop. At that time, the game time was an hour, but Hu Ronghua saw his opening and thought about the first move for 20 minutes. Thinking about it, I finally had no choice but to take a step. When Wang Jialiang looked at it, he just followed his path and walked fast. However, in the end, he found himself deceived again. It turned out that all the changes in the previous chess path, Hu Ronghua had already thought about it, but when he took the first step, he took a third of the time to act, pretending not to play, to paralyze him. Wang Jialiang was paralyzed by this, so he relaxed his vigilance, and finally was attacked by Hu Ronghua, who abandoned his previous achievements, slapped his bald head, and sighed in his northeast voice, "Oh-ah, carelessly lost Jingzhou!" ”
By the end of the 1970s, Hu Ronghua had become a lone wolf in the chess world. He has won the national championship for ten consecutive years, creating an unprecedented record of "ten consecutive championships" in the history of chess. He also took over Yang Guanxuan's class and became the third "Commander Hu" of the national chess world. The successive appearances of Yang Guanxuan and Hu Ronghua, like Du Fu and Li Bai in the chess world, have pushed chess to a new height. In 1980, a new national competition was held in Leshan, Sichuan. Before the game, Hu Ronghua and his teammates of the Shanghai team went to Emei Mountain to play. By noon, the crowd had eaten at a restaurant near Hokokuji Temple under the mountain and served some wine. Hu Ronghua drank yellow wine with a bit of alcohol, sometimes slightly drunk, the witty words were amazing, and the chess was getting better and better. This time, Hu Ronghua came to jiuxing and drank a few more drinks. Just when he was fluttering, a young waitress, serving food, saw that his face was red, and said, "Oh, why do you drink so red?" Hu Ronghua was interested and said triumphantly, "Blushing is good, blushing is Guan Laoye, after five levels and six generals!" "At that time, the national individual competition, a total of 11 rounds, five levels and six generals, was a good point of mouth to please this number. Who knew that the waiter girl smiled and said in a thick Sichuan dialect, "Guan Laoye, there are also times when maicheng is defeated." Everyone laughed, and after walking out of the restaurant, Hu Ronghua said, This Sichuan girl is so powerful that my meal tastes like chewing wax. Soon, the official game. Hu Ronghua suddenly really seemed like Guan Gong defeated Maicheng, and was beheaded under the horse in the first set of the opening round, and then suffered successive defeats, such as King Kong's incorruptible body was broken, and the peak state was no longer there.
Hu Ronghua
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Looking back now, since Hu Ronghua, chess has gradually gone downhill. One of the biggest reasons is that the inheritance of chess was cut off once during the Cultural Revolution. At that time, as soon as the sport broke out, chess was included in the four olds, the game was revoked, and the chess team was disbanded. Many chess players were sent to the factory, and some went to the countryside with Zhiqing. At that time, there was a Zhiqing chess player named He Liansheng, who grew up in Beijing and once defeated the invincible players in Beijing. In the chess world, he is known as the "drunkard". One is that he can drink, shabu-shabu lamb, and can drink a bottle and a half of two pots a meal. Another is that he plays chess and walks strange moves, and the chess path is crooked and oblique, like a drunken fist. After joining the team in 1969, he was assigned to the most remote and poor farm in Yunnan. I don't have enough to eat every day, and I spend all my time after work. Go up the mountain to hunt snakes, catch birds, and dig up soil and honey. Hungry to the point of hunger, as long as it is green is the vegetable, as long as it is moving is the meat. In those days, he was pessimistic about the future, had not touched a chess piece in five years, and said: "I can't eat enough to eat, what chess is played!" “
He Liansheng
It wasn't until 1974 that fate took a turn for the better. A chess friend in Beijing sent a letter to He Liansheng, telling him that China would resume the chess tournament and that if he could win the championship, he would have a chance to be transferred to the Sports Committee. He Liansheng then regained chess and pinned his hopes of escaping from the bitter sea on the chess game. Then I looked around for a chess game, looked for a master to practice chess, and found that I couldn't find a opponent. So I simply practiced chess alone. Yunnan is vast and vast, and He Liansheng lies down on the grass every time he reaches dusk. Looking at the changing fire clouds in the sky, imagine the unpredictable chessboard, and imagine the birds that move around as chess pieces. When I was young, the chess scores I played were all called out in my memory page by page, like a projection, and screened into the sky. Until the sky is completely dark, the stars and moons are full of sky, and dozens of games of chess have been practiced in my mind, and then I continue to look for food. Later, the Yunnan District Chess Tournament began, and because the ban had just started, everyone was enthusiastic. The entire schedule is broadcast live on a large chessboard. A giant chessboard five or six meters high was set up on the spot, and the paper paste pieces were the size of a washbasin, written in red and black characters, and a thin rope was glued to the back, and hung on the nails of the chess grid with a pole. Under the chessboard, thousands of people stretched their necks to watch, crowded. In the end, He Liansheng in this game, such as a master of sword training in the deep mountains, once out of the mountains, he won the championship of Yunnan Province and successfully transferred to the Yunnan Sports Committee. During that period, the development of chess was cut off for eight years. Many new chess players cannot rise, and the future of old chess players is interrupted, and they can't even eat. He Liansheng is one of the few people who eat public meals by playing chess. After that, as soon as a friend from the chess circle went to the chess academy to look for him, he said: "Here every day to eat meat, go, I will take you to eat, eat meat." At that time, he was assigned to Yunnan to join the queue, and there was also a Beijing insider, called Acheng, who also loved to eat meat like him since childhood. Others can get drunk when they drink wine, and Ah Cheng can eat meat and get drunk. Although Ah Cheng had never met He Liansheng, he was only thirty miles away from him, and he often heard stories about He Liansheng playing chess. In the 1980s, after Ah Cheng returned to Beijing, he and Li Tuo, the literary circle, carried a piece of shabu lamb, and told Li Tuo the story of He Liansheng playing chess. When Li Tuo heard this, he said, "You can write novels about this story!" ”
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Soon after, a novel by Ah Cheng, titled "The King of Chess", was published in Shanghai Literature, which was popular in the literary world for a while. Among them, the prototype of the protagonist "Wang Shengsheng" in the story is He Liansheng. He Liansheng was later transferred back to Beijing and retired at the age of fifty. By 1988, director Teng Wenji adapted "The King of Chess" into a movie, and He Liansheng was also used as a story prototype, invited to the crew, talked about the past, and accompanied the lead actor Xie Yuan to play chess to find the state of the role. When the film was screened, the opening of the film flashed his name: technical consultant - He Liansheng.
Teng Wenji's version of "The King of Chess"
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After the 90s, there were two iconic things in chess. First, in 1993, 14-year-old chess player Xu Yinchuan became the 9th national champion in the history of chess, breaking the record of Hu Ronghua winning the championship at the age of 15. When Xu Yinchuan appeared, he was regarded as the successor of the fourth generation of "chess commanders-in-chief". In 2014, however, a second thing happened. Xu Yinchuan was suddenly defeated by an opponent named Wang Tianyi, and has since faded out of the national individual competition. This year also became a watershed in the decline of chess. Since then, chess has completely entered an ERA of AI, and even the top players of human beings can only lose like a child who has lost his armor when facing the computer. Chess has also become a lost skill, and more than forty grandmasters across the country, combined, are not as popular as a live game. Chess rises and falls for thousands of years, like a reincarnation, climbing from the trail to the national art, and then sliding from the national art into the trail. The people of the past lost to the world, and the people of today lost to the times. In the end it seems like all the people have lost. It's just that the life of chess is still like chess, and the chess friends are still there. In 1971, He Shun'an, a chess player in Shanghai, told a story about the past before his death. Once playing chess in Hong Kong that year, his wallet was stolen by the pickpocket, and there was no way to go home. That time, his colleague Yang Guanxuan was also in Hong Kong, and when he heard the news of his death, he took the initiative to find him and "set up a table" in the tea house. "Setting up a table" is the saying of the jianghu industry, that is, someone is killed when walking in the jianghu, regardless of whether they know their peers or not, help build a field, perform together, and the income after the performance is given to the people who are in distress to go home. In fact, at that time, Yang Guanxuan was already a generation of masters, and it was not difficult to help He Shun'an and directly give a travel fee. However, in order to take care of the dignity of the chess player, it is to help him, not to give alms, or to take the initiative to find He Shun'an to play a game game, and finally give him the performance fee he earned. There is also a real thing, the protagonist is not a famous artist, just the most ordinary chess enthusiasts. In the 1920s, there were two chess enthusiasts in Shanghai and Guangzhou, and the two of them met each other, but it was difficult to meet, so they agreed to play communication chess. That is, every time one party writes a step on the letter and sends it to the other party, the other party writes another step and sends it back. The game played 53 rounds, lasting nearly four years from the winter of 1922 to the final game in the fall of 1926. The following spring, the two began playing a second game of chess. After more than twenty rounds, one of them died of illness, leaving a game of chess that remained in the envelope forever. Another person received a mail shortly afterwards, opening a collector's edition of sandalwood chess. On the back of the chessboard, eight words are engraved: Life is like a chess piece, and there is no regret in falling.